[Tagging] With leisure=common deprecated, Senegal & Mali need a replacement
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri May 1 11:33:02 UTC 2020
On 1/5/20 9:00 pm, Florimond Berthoux wrote:
> +1 for highway=pedestrian + area=yes
> That how we map a town square in France (and every where else I guess ?)
To me highway=pedestrian is more for where for where foot traffic passes
rather than a place where people stop and meet.
>
>
> Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 23:18, Joseph Eisenberg
> <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> I agree, the area in this spot
> (https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA) is a
> moderly sized open area of bare earth, with buildings on 3 sides
> and a paved streets on a long side. It appears to be used for
> sports and recreation, and for walking. I suspect it might be a
> "de facto" leisure=pitch - in the USA it would be an "empty lot"
> used for soccer/baseball/etc. It could also be a
> highway=pedestrian + area=yes - an open pedestrian area or "town
> square" - those are usually paved in some way in developed
> countries, but that's not a requirement. It does not appear to be
> a park.
>
> There was not any formal discussion to deprecate leisure=common,
> and mappers are certainly free to keep using that tag. It was
> marked as deprecated by one wiki user, about a year ago.
>
> But since the tag it is not well defined, it will be hard for
> database users to interpret what it means.
>
> -- Joseph Eisenberg
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org <mailto:tagging at openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by skquinn at rushpost.com
> <mailto:skquinn at rushpost.com>:
>
> On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>
> Here is a 360° picture of a square in Dakar:
> https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA
> - larger than a
> street (it occupies a whole city block), used as a
> multipurpose common
> area (pickup soccer games are a staple but parking or
> lounging around
> also occur, and the occasional popular event) and
> usually surfaced with
> sand or whatever the ground is.
>
> We have long tagged it leisure=common (389 ways in
> Senegal and 486 in
> Mali according to http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN) -
> which is a bit of
> stretch from the British legal definition, but worked
> well enough and
> did not conflict with its British usage. But
> leisure=common is now
> deprecated
>
> So, what should we use instead ?
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon
> suggests using
> leisure=park - which isn't too much of a stretch
> functionally but evokes
> greenery that does not occur here (though British
> commons are just as
> green and we were happy with leisure=common)... Any
> other ideas ? Or I'm
> going to use leisure=park+surface=sand !
>
>
> While leisure=park might work, there is also
> leisure=recreation_ground
> to consider.
>
>
> leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without
> baggage of legal
> status bundled into leisure=commons
>
> This specific place looks like leisure=pitch. And for example
> in Poland some
> sport pitch may be used for an occasional event, festival of
> various types.
>
> Note: I am unfamiliar with on-the-ground situation in Africa
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> --
> Florimond Berthoux
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